Unions says there is ‘zero confidence’ in process of raising complaints about ministers, citing Dominic Raab case

No civil servant who went through the complaints process against the former justice secretary Dominic Raab would ever want to go through it again, such was the ordeal, MPs have been told.

There was “zero confidence” in the process of raising complaints about ministers and the ministerial code was “completely inadequate”, trade union leaders representing civil servants told the Commons standards committee.

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